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The Just and the Unjust

CHAPTER SEVEN
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"Don't forget me, dear! I love you, I Love you--I want you--Oh, I want you for my wife!" The girl looked into the passionate face upturned to hers, and then her head drooped.

And so they remained long; his dark head resting in her arms; her fair face against it.
"Why do you go, John ?" she asked at length, out of the rich content of their silence.
"I haven't any choice, dear heart; there isn't any place for me here.

I have thought it all over, and I know I am doing the wise thing,--I am quite sure of this! I shall write you of everything that concerns me!" he added hastily, as he heard the tread of the general's slippered feet in the hall.
North released her hands as the general entered the room.

Elizabeth sank back in her chair.

Her father glanced sharply at them, and North turned toward him frankly.
"I am leaving on the midnight train, General, and I must say good-by; I have to get a few things together for my trip!" General Herbert glanced again at Elizabeth, but her face was averted and he learned nothing from its expression.
"So you are going away! Well, North, I hope you will have a pleasant trip,--better let me send you into town ?" And he reached for the bell-rope.


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